Human Behavior Quotes

159 quotes by 139 authors

Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by… — J D Salinger
The Jewish sages also tell us that God dances when His children defeat Him in argument, when they stand on their feet and use their… — Mary Doria Russell
Smoking I find the most ridiculous of all the varieties of human behavior and practically the only one that is entirely against nature. Can you… — Ian Fleming
I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses… — Jim Harrison
Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed. — Anita Brookner
Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture. — Hermann Hesse
All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem. — Michael Crichton
Idiot people like Angel Delaporte who look for a supernatural reason for ordinary events, those people drive Misty nuts. — Chuck Palahniuk
What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals? — Douglas Coupland
All human behavior, all human motivations, all manâ€™s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankindâ€™s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of… — Robert A. Heinlein
I am now convinced that children should not be subjected to the frightfulness of the Christian religion [...]. If the concept of a father who… — Ruth Hurmence Green
... People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely… — Lev S. Vygotsky
There's never been a rule of human behavior that hasn't been broken by someone, somewhere, sometime, in some circumstance mundane or spectacular. To be human… — Ian McDonald
but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings. — George Eliot
A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics.… — Michael Crichton
When examining evidence relevant to a given belief, people are inclined to see what they expect to see, and conclude what they expect to conclude.… — Thomas Gilovich
What we believe is heavily influenced by what we think others believe — Thomas Gilovich
People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them… — Thomas Gilovich
To summarize, using money to motivate people can be a double-edged sword. For tasks that require cognitive ability, low to moderate performance-based incentives can help.… — Dan Ariely
The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind. — E. M. Forster

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